Modern Watercolor: A playful and contemporary exploration of watercolor painting

An excellent resource for the beginner watercolourist.

I have only recently gotten into watercolour painting and my biggest interest is in botanics - even just to look through this book to see how the author paints these flowers is lovely. There are step by step instructions along with images and these images show how the author holding her brush/making the stroke, which is incredibly helpful and I have found is lacking in other books that I have been using. There is also an introduction to watercolour painting, as most other books, and again, the images that show how to mix the paint and set up a palette is brilliant - as I was getting this wrong previously, and was wondering why my paintings were drying different to how I intended! Fantastic book, highly highly recommend!

It’s very nice book for beginners who have started or interested in watercolours..

Yes, the book was used and it was an excellent condition. It also came very quickly when one considers it was shipped from England to Canada. I ordered it on the fourth and it was here. On 16 September. I am very pleased with my purchase and the book is great for beginners. Lots of information and very little pressure to become an expert right away.

This is outstanding. The techniques I tried actually worked and the best thing was Van Leuven’s color chart - not the color wheel, but making a color chart of your own set of paints. Then you don’t get stuck when artists use shades you don’t have because you’re able to see what your own paints can produce. Excellent book.